I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives.
I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That's the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there - a white rectangle in a theater - and it has to be filled.
A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
It has been rumored that "Psycho" is so terrifying that it will scare some people speechless. Some of my men hopefully sent their wives to a screening. The women emerged badly shaken but still vigorously vocal.
There are so many stories that need to be told and are not being told. We tend to want to put things in boxes: "This is a memoir about a Muslim," or "This is a memoir about a woman or a normal personal. " There's a certain story that assumes to be universal. Everyone else is ethnic fiction. Anyone can aspire to universality.
I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.
Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, a whole host of brilliant, courageous critics say all kinds of things, and he [Barack Obama] treats them with respect. They get invited to the White House. I say the same thing, he talks to me like I'm a Cub Scout.
French girls still have the Jane Birkin culture. You can go just like that, without makeup, without managing your hair.